Singer Dinah Washington, the Grammy-winning "Queen ... But the singer's musical gifts were offset by a wild and extravagant personal life. Married seven times, Washington battled weight problems ...

“Dinah Was” skirts some of the soap suds, however, by not smoothing out the roughness of Washington’s passion. It digs into the social prejudices and personal demons that led her to become ...

Dinah Washington packed several lifetimes into ... of the Jukeboxes,” a journey complicated by her tempestuous personal life and her country’s racism, which circumscribed her life on the ...

Known as the Queen of the Blues or Queen of the Juke Boxes, Dinah Washington rode her voice from her gospel roots through the blues, jazz and into lushly orchestrated pop ballads. It was this ...

No one knows exactly what made the celebrated Lionel Hampton go down the street after a gig to check out an 18-year-old singer named Ruth Jones. Hampton was playing Chicago's Regal Theater.

Chicago singer Sasha Daltonn has been performing, refining and rewriting her Washington tribute ... about her chaotic personal life, the heroine of “Sasha Sings Dinah” is a flesh-and-blood ...

They called her “Queen of the Blues,” a title Dinah Washington wore with pride and disdain. The way she saw it, Miss D could sing anything – and she did. Blues, country, schmaltzy pop ...

But before her life was cut short in 1963 (she died at age 39, from a toxic mix of booze and diet pills), Washington made a then-usual leap from the R&B to the pop charts. “Dinah Was,” which ...

Did Dinah Washington really lose it when she attended one of Aretha Franklin’s shows and heard Franklin sing one of Washington’s songs — as depicted in the new movie “Respect”?

Did Dinah Washington really lose it when she attended one of Aretha Franklin’s shows and heard Franklin sing one of Washington’s songs — as depicted in the new movie “Respect”?